#鼓舞
And she’s really good at languages. Mind you, I live in an international student dorm in a foreign languages university campus so I shouldn’t be so surprised, but here I am still wondering how she got this good.
I was hanging out with my Thai and Korean friends. We all speak Japanese cause that’s the common tongue even though everyone speaks English and in she walks, Japanese girl, speaking Japanese, nothing out of the ordinary until she speaks Thai to the Thai people and then Korean with the Koreans.
It’s not just your everyday self-introduction that anyone can get fluent in, in just about any language after about 2 and a half days of watching Youtube tutorials, we were talking aboutstuffin Japanese and then when the person she was talking to didn’t know the word for free-market capitalism (how many of us know these kind of words in our own language anyway) she would just switch to their bloody language.
Now I just have to let you know, since I am so humble about my Japanese ability that she had no reason to speak to me in English. But she did. I had asked what year of uni she was in, “yeah I’m a freshman”, what is a freshman?
Pictures of the Old-Spice guy and various other hygiene commercials flashed inside my head before I concluded that this probably meant first-year cause y’know, it’s got a freshin there but while I was working this out I must’ve had a weird look on my face because then she laughs, gives me a slap on the arm and says, “no, I’m actually a junior”. if freshman is first year, what the shit is a junior?
So now I’ve concluded, if I want to look like a well-learned Japanese learner I should just learn a different dialect or something. I guess it’s a good thing I live in Osaka. Also that maybe I’ve put all my eggs into the Japanese learning basket and not enough into literally any other language. Then again, I like Japan.
PS Meeting cute girls has a miraculous effect on your motivation.
PPS Maybe I just have a thing for girls that are good at languages, what does that say about me??
